Tuesday 23 February 2010
LIVERPOOL DEATHMATCH
Great clip of the last ever "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" Halloween skateboard all-nighter.
If you don't know about this event, It was the brainchild of Foxy (vocalist for S.S.S.) and was held at a skatepark I built, RAMPWORX in Liverpool. It had a bunch of bands play in the early part of the evening and then at the stroke of midnight, a 10 minute bare-knuckle brawl/ skate session took place. The baying crowd were actively encouraged to throw stuff into the bowl during the Deathmatch. Over the years I saw beercans, pumpkins, fireworks, male and female streakers and a lambs heart.
Foxy is the "Don King" of promotion in UK skate circles and NOTLD was extremely well attended.... maybe 1000 or so people at the last one and things really did get out of hand but it was a real lot of fun.
Foxy even managed to get Tony Trujillo, John Cardiel and the rest of the ANTI-HERO team to attend one of them...so that was an eye opener for all involved parties!!
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not just because of the (refreshing) classical soundtrack (for a change), there is a certain perverse poetry to piss-heads riding through cans, their inebriated mass inevitable catching up with them and slamming them info the floor. The guy in the black T shirt must have been a Straight Edge - that's got to be considered cheating? But even he can't escape crushed aluminium clogging his under-carriage.
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